Fabulous news update!

[eliyes]

Curing cancer through cloning! A man with advanced skin cancer was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing a procedure wherein immune cells cloned from the ones in his own body were injected into him. After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.

This is really great! :D Possibly I'm just on the slow boat to finding this out, but I'm still very excited. CANCER MAY BE CURED WITHIN MY LIFETIME, and that would make me incredibly happy.

Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

O RLY?

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[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yes, really! Read the edited post, it was posted incomplete by my cat. X3

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

KITTEH! ( ._.)9

...wow.

That's pretty frikkin' awesome. But it's too bad that it will probably only be for those who can afford it. Most cancer treatments now are only given to people with money. :/

Still. It's pretty sweet.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Even putting aside whether this is The Cure or not, I have hopes that societies for the research and treatment of cancer (in all their various bodies) will accept the challenge, once a cure is found and properly tested and developed, of rearranging their focus to allow for budgeting that funnels donated money into getting cancer patients treatment. (Otherwise, I have the feeling they'll start getting a lot less donations.)

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I wonder if they can do something similar for HIV/AIDS?

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would work so well. HIV/AIDS come from an actual virus. Cancer doesn't. Pumping someone's cloned immune cells into them might help combat the Immuno-Deficiency aspects, as long as the harvested cells that were cloned were themselves virus-free...

I am not a medical doctor and this is all me trying to logic my way through things on very little sleep. ^^;

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

This just shows you how very very little I know about disease.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I was raised by someone in the medical profession. ;3

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

My dad was a Navy Corpsman for 20 years, and also did inspections of military facilities. All I was raised on was how people got STDs, how deadly tattoos were when done wrong, and how dirty most kitchens were. Thus my irrational fear of a lot of things.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

My mother is an arachnophobe! High five, people who were given fears by their parents!

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to figure out where the hell my fear of heights comes from. And its bad, anything above like 11 feet (twice my height) and I panic.

Meh, I could never get a tat anyway, I am too fickle. Heck, I'm already bored with the henna I did on Friday.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I actually like heights, just not bridges. But I know where that came from. (Childhood trauma!)

For a second I was like, "Wait, I didn't think I'd mentioned the tat I'm thinking of getting on here..." My policy is that if I still like the idea a year later, I seriously consider getting it. So far, nothing's made the cut.